12 Days of Christmas - Day 3

Filofax UK have said Sorry... well I didn't receive the original code but whatever I will forgive them for that.....

We're sorry the code we sent you this morning is not working! Please use the code below for 20% off all organisers. We've extended the code too, to give you extra shopping time.

Simply use code SORRY3 at the checkout

Expires 5/12/12 9.29am <<< how precise is that!!!!!

So get shopping... all commission earned via links to Filofax UK are donated to, Chimwemwe, no I can't pronounce it either... but it's an excellent cause which you have contributed to already this year through shopping on Filofax UK Let's boost the total even more. So go on... treat yourself or a friend... 

City Organiser Promotion Code

I would just like to alert you to the latest City Organiser Promotion Code, this will get you an additional 10% off their already discounted (in most cases) prices and you will no doubt experience their excellent customer service.

If you haven't bought from them before then you should give them a try, fast service and very reasonable delivery rates even abroad.

The promotion code is firework and it will terminate at mid night (UK time) on 5th November 2012.

In case you are wondering we aren't getting anything for promoting City Organiser on Philofaxy, we are just satisfied customers like a lot of other folks. 

Current Filofax Sales...

You might have spotted some of these already, but just in case you haven't....

• Filofax France has a 50% off and 30% off sale on until the end of the month.
• Filofax Italy has a 60% off and 50% off sale
• Filofax Germany has a sale
• Filofax UK has offers on Flex covers and Chameleons
• City Organiser have some great savings too.. and don't forget the Philofaxy Discount Code valid until the end of this month.

Happy hunting....

Guest Post - Some enabling with LeBonCoin.fr ?

Merci beaucoup to Frédérique for this informative guest post

LeBonCoin.fr is the French equivalent of the "classified ads" section of a newspaper : people can place ads for... anything, cars, appartments, and so on. There's no payment system included in the website (unlike ebay), there are just ads, with 3 pictures max, a small description, and it's sorted geographically, by "département". Usually, you can get in touch with the seller by phone or email, and you agree together of the form of payment, and shipment, if that is the case, or you agree to meet in person, and exchange to goods, against cash.

By the way, I am not affiliated in any way with leboncoin.fr, it's just that I'm French and living in France, and this website is used by lots of people.

As any of you, I browse Ebay from time to time, and it can be fun to find models that were previously unknown to me : had you ever heard of a zipped compact Portobello ? Or a personal Ranger ? I hadn't... ! And it's strange, but I had never really thought of browsing leboncoin.fr for good Filofax deals...

But please be warned : people who use this website sometimes aren't... Internet-litterate, you will find lots of typos/grammar mistakes (and it's in French, obviously), the pics are not always helpful (sometimes blurry, and/or too small...); and regarding people selling Filofaxes, you will not always find the exact name model (or any name, for that matter). If you like digging around, that can be fun and surprising.

So, how do you search theses Filofax on this website ? First, load up http://www.leboncoin.fr/ in your browser. Then click any part on the map, because whichever "département" you choose, the next screen will have a drop-down menu allowing you to search an item in the whole of France.

Don't bother with a complex search : "filofax" will do the trick just fine. You can then sort the results by price (lowest to highest) and then, you might have some interesting suprises.

Here is the link with the results of this query : http://www.leboncoin.fr/annonces/offres/alsace/occasions/?q=filofax&sp=1

And so, as of today (Saturday, June 2nd, 2012), we could buy... lots of vintage/discontinued Filofaxes, and some pretty cool ones !

- a blue Pocket "College" Filofax, for 4 euros (funny, my mom offered my the personal one when I was 18 and entering University, I never knew there were other formats !)

- a Cross in M2 format (!!!), color "mustard", along with a pink Letts organizer, and both for... 7 euros !

- a grey Personal Tuscany, 15 euros

- a red A4 zip Graphic (or Sketch ?), 15 euros

- a red Personal Piccadilly (!), 15 euros

- a really old Personal Savannah, 20 euros

- a burgundy (?) Deskfax (model unknown), *and* its punch-hole, both for 30 euros :

- a Personal Richmond, 45 euros

- a Pocket Siena in cinnamon, 60 euros (retails for 140 on filofax.de but currently on sale at 98 euros...)

And so on...

I am currently trying to get the M2, and perhaps the Deskfax, as I am curious about these sizes, but perhaps some other French readers of Philofaxy might like to score some of these items for themselves ?

Oh, the enabling

Happy hunting !

Frédérique

Philofaxy > City Organiser

A big thank you to our friends at City Organiser for letting us have our own promotion code....

The 10% discount code for June & July is philofaxy10.

I'm told Purple Maldens are back in stock ... and Compact Maldens are now also on line (review coming up early next week on Philofaxy)

So what are you waiting for... go and shop...

You might also notice a familiar logo at the bottom right of their page... thank you.

And if you haven't visited their page on Facebook yet you should and 'like' them too.

[Update this has now been extended to the end of August 2012]

Philofaxy London Meet Up - May 2012

What a glorious day it was on Saturday, hot and sunny all day and 11 Philofaxy fans meeting up in London made it even more special. This obviously is very picture heavy...

We started off as usual at Tate Modern for lunch, as always it was great to see old friends as well as welcoming new people to their first meet up. As you can see we were head-lining alongside Damien Hurst. As usual now it wasn't long before the Filofax organisers appeared on the table and were being passed around.

Cat, Louise, Tracy

Cat, Louise

Imy, Andy

Andy, Preethi

Yasmin

Also in our group was Andy from City Organiser, we didn't quiz him too much over lunch about the latest products from Filofax. But he very kindly opened his shop for just us later in the afternoon.

There was the usual fine display of organisers and inserts, and all of us enjoyed browsing and choosing, deciding and buying some new organisers and inserts.

'Do you think we will have any stock left on the shelves?'

This one or this one?...Both they cried

Look bargains

However, downstairs in City Organiser was the Aladdin's cave for any one remotely interested in Filofax..... The stockroom/office/mail order department of City Organiser, I don't think any of us have seen so many organisers in one place, boxes and boxes of them!!!

Yes that desk there will suit me fine

Yes we got a little carried away with ourselves down there!! As you can see Imy is deciding which desk is going to be hers!!!

Then for the final part of of afternoon we were privileged to witness the launch of the fashionable, on trend, exclusive, limited edition Tracyley organiser.

The designer Tracy gave us an excellent and professional presentation. Andy was so impressed by this unique design he asked if he could put it on display in his window (price on application, of course). All sales enquiries to City Organiser.

Later that evening a reduced number of us joined Tracy to celebrate the launch with cocktails at a high class London restaurant in Docklands.

Finally, I would like to thank everyone that attended the meet up, to Andy and Aline at City Organiser for being so courageous in welcoming us. It was a very special day all around... and yes I'm sure we would all like to visit City Organiser again.  So I better start planning the next meet-up I guess!